A few years back it felt like SQL was on it's way to the grave. Everyone was talking about how all kinds of NoSQL solutions were the absolute future and the solutions to all of life's problems. It felt like everything would be NoSQL in 2015

Falcor is a new library open sourced by Netflix, another prominent new company giving back to Open Source. Falcor is described as a JavaScript library for efficient data fetching. It is a radically different approach from the traditional culture of building multiple endpoints.

Server side rendering and isomorphic JavaScript is somewhat of a hyped topic these days. Mostly the whole stack is built with JavaScript, from the server running Node.js to the client using a framework/library such as React.

JavaScript has been and continues being a hot topic. In the last few years we've seen the rise and fall of libraries, utilities and other tools such as Angular.js, React, Mootools, CoffeeScript and more. Nowadays the ideal way to develop JavaScript would be to use a transpiler: a tool that allows you to write a future specification of the EcmaScript specification and compiles it down to something compatible and available to users today.

Graph Databases are becoming more common place in social media, dta processing, content management and other applications developed by millions of people around the world. There are query languages like Cypher for Neo4j, etc. But who does Graphs better than Facebook? Arguably no-body. This is why GraphQL, now Open Sourced by Facebook could be the SQL of Knowledge.